What’s happening in Sadik Group

Members of Sadik Group at Pittcon 2019 in Philadelphia from March 17 - 21, 2019	Justine Gordon and Ezer Castillo attended 2019 Pittcon	Ezer Castillo and Dr. Sadik at Pittcon 2019
Dr. Sadik appeared on Public Broadcasting in January 2019 with Hari Srinevasan on SciTech.  https://www.pbs.org/video/technology-can-do-everything-rmxzgk/ SciTech Now captures the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and innovation. Sadik discussed the latest innovations in Biosensors and Sustainable Nanotechnology.	Ezer Castillo and Justine Gordon were among the 17 Graduate Students that received the 2018 Sustainable Nanotechnology organization (SNO) Travel Award. They presented their interesting and exciting ongoing research projects amongst the stalwarts in the field of sustainable nanotechnology.	Sustainable greener synthesis of different shapes of gold nanoparticles (nanospheres, nanocubes and nanotriangles) by reacting gold (III) chloride with water-soluble flavonoid phosphate derivatives at room temperature

2012 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Dr. Sadik has been elected to the 2012 College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), according to the 2012 AIMBE listing just released. There were 107 individuals elected to the College. The new fellows were inducted at the Fellows Induction and Awards Ceremonies at AIMBE’s 21^st Annual Event on February 20, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Sadik was elected for her research and development of nano-bioanalytical detection platforms for environmental diagnostics and biological monitoring. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of leaders in science and engineering, including medical and biological engineers, research directors, innovators, and successful entrepreneurs.

The inductees, who were nominated by their peers, were screened by committees of Fellows within their specialty and were finally elected by the full College as the official College of Fellows Class of 2012. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country. Engineering and medical school chairs, research directors, innovators, and successful entrepreneurs, comprise the College of Fellows to pursue AIMBE’s mission to provide leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering for the advancement of society. http://www.aimbe.org/2011/12/new-class-elected-to-medical-and-biological-engineering-elite

The 2012 ACS Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry

Veronica Okello has been selected a winner of one of the 2012 Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry. The award is given by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society to students who have demonstrated great research productivity and potential for future contributions as an environmental chemistry professional.

Dr. Samuel Mwilu Receives NRC Research Fellowship:

Congratulations to Dr. Sam Mwilu, an alumnus of the Sadik Group for receiving the National Research Council (NRC) fellowship tenable at the US-EPA in Las Vegas, Nevada. The internationally competitive award is administered by the Research Programs of the NRC. The fellowship provides research opportunities for highly qualified scientists and engineers at the doctoral level to select research problems of their choice to be conducted at federal laboratories.

IGERT Fellowship
Robert Congdon, currently a third year Ph.D candidate in Prof. Omowunmi Sadik’s research group, has been accepted as a fellow in the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program (IGERT). This award is administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The IGERT program is intended to train graduate students to conduct interdisciplinary research in physical and engineering sciences. This specific IGERT grant collaboration is between Binghamton and Cornell Universities for the development Flexible Electronics For Biological and Life Science Applications (FlexEBio). Currently, Robert is working on developing a sensor for the electrochemical detection of biofilms. Also this summer, Robert is planning to work with Prof. Naresh Kumar of the University of New South Wales in Australia, to develop novel anti-microbial materials for various substrates through the IGERT fellowship.

IGERT Fellowship
Boling Deng, a current graduate student from Prof. Omowunmi Sadik’s research group, has received a fellowship of the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and administered through the Nanobiotechnology Center at Cornell. This IGERT fellowship provides opportunities for U. S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers who will pursue careers in research and education to capitalize on the nascent biodevice revolution enabled by flexible electronics. Boling is pursuing the Ph.D. degree under Prof. Sadik’s in the analytical chemistry field and he is interesting in the development of chemical and biological sensors.